When life beats us down at least we can always fall into the loving arms of Bodhi Linux. Im a gardener myself, but I wish i could have more time to work on it, plus I only have a limited space.
Down trees are very tiresome to deal with. Wish you the best of luck.
I have been struggling hard to get some knowledge down with tech support to find a career and after all blood sweat and tears finally found something and will be starting it at end of month. Hard work goes long way but it can beat us down especially when dealing with other issues such as health.

Guten Tag!
Have you installed winxp driver? It looks like you need winxp and then set up Ndiswrapper per this ubuntu support article.
You can follow this document for Ndiswrapper
This article gives basic set up for wireless card install using Windows drivers.

Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there’s not enough to see. When listened to, there’s not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.
[Tao Te Ching chapter 35]
Had to respond with all of the pure land and zen talk
PureLand is a good name for it.
I am a beginner so I am currently learning Java. I am slowly understanding more and more as I go.

Synaptic Package Manager that graywizard pointed to is a good tool for applications. You can download it from the appcenter
You can also use the terminal and for many applications you can use sudo apt-get install ___________ where ___________ is the name of the program
such as sudo apt-get install libreoffice
Bodhi is pretty simple. I hope you and your son enjoy it

I never really knew about the text based browsers. I tried lynx out in terminal. That is pretty cool! I think your right the home page for the keyboard was Yahoo, so lots of flash, ads, photos. Its my wifes computer. So far seems cleared up. I like the concept of text based browsers. I read some articles today through lynx